README for:
Replication of Skorge, O.S. (2021). Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation, AJPS, DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12654 


This file provides the instructions to replicate the original results by the author and an alternative specification with a different dependent variable (gender turnout gap).

#### INSTRUCTIONS FOR REPLICATION ####

Please follow the instructions below to replicate the results:

(1) Download *THIS* replication folder. Do not alter the files included.
(2) Download Skorge (2021) original replication files from the AJPS Dataverse and unzip them.
(3) Copy the folders "data" and "utils" from the original Dataverse and paste them exactly as they are in the replication folder containing this README.txt. These files are needed to replicate the results.
(4) Open the file "replication_master.r". All the original analyses as well as the replication presented here are done in the statistical program R. This master file, based on Skorge (2021) files, produces the dataset needed for the replication, runs the analyses and creates the html files with two tables: one reproducing the selected models from Skorge (2021) with the original results and one with the same selected models but using Gender Turnout Gap as dependent variable. The scripts must be run in the order presented in the replication_master.r file:

1. utils/utils.r
2. data/data_main_01_data_from_sources.r
3. data_set.r
4. replication_originals.r
5. replication_alternative_dv.r

After running the replication_master.r, there will be a new file with the dataset used for the analyses ("data_main.csv"), and a new folder called "tables" that include two html files with the replication tables.

#.R Files:

- utils/utils.r : User-defined R functions used in the other R scripts. This script is the original one provided by Skorge (2021) without any modification.

- data/data_main_01_data_from_sources.r : R script 1 of 2 that needs to be run to produce data_main.csv from Skorge (2021) data sources (for details, see the codebook.pdf provided by Skorge in the original replication files). This script is the original one provided by Skorge (2021) without any modification

- data_set.r : R script 1 of 2 that needs to be run to produce data_main.csv. It defines and creates all variables used in the analyses. This script modifies the original code provided by Skorge (2021) to include the gender turnout gap.

- replication_originals.r : Runs the analyses and creates the table with the replications of the selected original analyses. This table replicates the following models from Skorge's paper: Model 4, Table 1 is the model in the author's main analysis, including all the demographic and political covariates but no time trends; Model 6, Table 1 is the same Model 4, including the linear and squared time trends (time trends are municipality specific); Model 6, Table E.1, reports the robustness check presented by the author in the SI whereby the full sample of municipalities is used but time is restricted to the 1916 and 1919 elections (as in a more traditional Diff-in-Diff setting) using the full set of demographic and political covariates; Model 4, Table G.1 reports the Model 4 from the main analysis (All covars./No time trends) with leads of the 1919 PR treatment as a placebo model to check for parallel trends. This is a new script created using Skorge (2021) analyses code with some modifications to only include the mentioned models. This code also creates the table summarising the results.

- replication_alternative_dv.r : Runs the analyses and creates the table with the previous replications using the alternative specification of the dependent variable (i.e., Gender Turnout Gap). This is script, as the previous one, is an adaptation of Skorge (2021) code modified to run the analyses with the new dependent variable.

## All the data sources are extracted directly from Skorge (2021). For more details refer to the original replication dataverse files.

